Deceased
from Hamden, CT
…In 1979, the Yale biologist Arthur Galston, who specialized in herbicide research, published a review of what was known at the time about the toxicity of TCDD. Even "vanishingly small" quantities of dioxin in the diet caused adverse health effects when tested on animals.[17] Since then, TCDD...
Arthur W. Galston (d. June 15, 2008) was an American botanist and bioethicist who, as a graduate student at the University of Illinois, discovered the ...